Criteria of Validity — UPD x Oxford Philosophy Lecture Series

🌟 MEET THE SPEAKER FOR CRITERIA OF VALIDITY 🌟

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🔔 Introducing, a major voice in Philosophy of Law 🔔

👤 Meet the Speaker
⚖️ Tom Adams is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law as well as a Tutorial Fellow at St. Catherine’s College. He works in philosophy of law, as well as on theoretical aspects of constitutional and administrative law.

📝 Lecture Abstract
⚖️ This talk revisits the debate between inclusive and exclusive legal positivism, arguing that the question around which it is founded – about whether morality can function as a condition of legal validity – obscures a more basic and fundamental truth about the nature of law: that the norms composing a legal system’s criteria of validity have a formal as opposed to substantive nature. Recognising this, I argue, helps to clarify some important aspects of the relationship between the ultimate norms of any legal system and its constitution. It also helps to explain away much of the debate between exclusive and inclusive positivism.

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